Sentences with word «solemn»

She had not put forward a positive case that the will was invalid but only insisted on the will being proved in solemn form with cross-examination of the witnesses who attested the will and, consequently, she would have to pay her own costs but no costs order would be made against her.

It concludes with solemn pledges of reform: «We want to denounce imperialism in all its forms and concomitantly pledge ourselves to work with native peoples in their efforts to recover their lands, their languages, their sacred traditions, and their rightful pride....

Because the right to life is the most fundamental of all rights, working diligently to achieve No Kill is the most solemn duty of any organization that claims the mantle of animal welfare or animal rights.

Ecclesiastical «emperors» may love to march in solemn assembly, but to most younger church members today's vestments suggest ostentation — which they have difficulty associating with Jesus.

Unless, of course, as I do not think is the case, Mr. Steinfels thinks that men who intend to do, and approve of doing, things that the Church teaches are gravely sinful should be allowed to take solemn vows of perfect and perpetual chastity.

The oldest and most solemn responsibility of the federal government in the field of education, dating back to 1867, is to gather and report «statistics and information showing the condition and progress of education in the United States.»

Any reporter who can not assess the relative merits of a global scientific consensus - especially in contradiction to an «expert» that the coal industry is paying to help «clear the air» - deserves to have his pencil taken away in solemn ceremony and broken into bits.

Of course, P.S. 1 always holds work as solemn as one can stand as well, and the men on display out in Queens all those proper male things.

But they declared that all their fault or error amounted to was the custom of meeting on certain days before daybreak and singing a chant to Christ as to a god, taking turns, and binding themselves by solemn oath not to commit any crimes.2

We can make and remake our obligations, even some of our more solemn promises.

(ii) together with members of her family enter into solemn declarations on the Koran before an Imam in the Regent's Park Mosque or head of The Muslim College, granting the safe return of the child;

It's a day for solemn remembrance, quiet knowing, for the resolve of «please never again.»

The hammy sentimentality that made solemn scenes in the first two installments such campy fun has evaporated in favor of a serial crime - show brand of seriousness.

What he should have said is that he does not have the nerve to exercise the control that was entrusted to him by the Church, and that he accepted by solemn vows before God and man.

«My most solemn obligation is the security of our people.»

Churchill's solemn warning at a critical point in European history only drew widespread attention to what was already happening.

Today we take solemn oaths by «placing one hand on the Bible.»

To that connection we make the most solemn pledges, promising «to love, honor and cherish» each other «for richer.

At certain points in the tune, they begin to play, completing their piece with a few dramatic strikes, after which the chant settles back into a gentler, more solemn tone, unaccompanied by the instruments» metallic voices.

It also produced some rare humor in this otherwise solemn event.

And before they've even had time to order dessert, the Fosters are escorted by a pair of solemn looking men (Jimmi Simpson, Common) out the back door and into an alley where they expect to get a tongue lashing for taking another customer's table.

The NDC is therefore using its achievement record over the past four years as basis for re-election, using a manifesto which they described as a bold, forward - looking agenda, which enumerates the party's solemn commitment to advance the Better Ghana Agenda, under President John Dramani Mahama.

Hence, men who seek prosperity should always respect women, (and) on solemn occasions and festivals, adorn with ornaments, clothes and food [3.59].

In the first scene, he arrives late to her funeral, obviously so De Niro can have a big entrance, looking very solemn as everyone else looks at him in awe.

Rosmini's personal holiness was recognised by the Church in solemn form when he was beatified in 2007.

Seeing my old friend up close and personal, in venues ranging from solemn high Mass in his beautifully restored cathedral to a wildlife preserve featuring all the strange and wondrous fauna of Australia (the cardinal, inspecting a particularly ungainly wombat: «I wonder what the Creator had in mind here?»)

«The appropriate thing to do would be to suspend any protests that could be misinterpreted on one of the most solemn days of the country, where we lost almost 3,000 Americans,» Jeffries, widely considered a rising star in the Democratic party, said on the ESPN / ABC News podcast Capital Games this week.

This moving Israeli drama begins with a scene every parent with a child in the army fears — the knock at the door and the soldiers with solemn faces.

It is not mere poetry but a most solemn truth - claim of the biblical tradition that «no man is an island.»

On a day rich with symbolism, the scarlet - clad cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel in solemn procession, chanting prayers and watched over by the paintings of Renaissance artist Michelangelo.

The second initiation ceremony was held, again before the altar in the church, and even more solemn moments.

The main difference between the two sites is that eHarmony only sends links to people which it believes are very good matches, a business - like solemn approach.

As the New Mexico Supreme Court judges said in an 1896 court opinion, «The idea that a handful of wild, half - naked, thieving, plundering, murdering savages should be dignified with the sovereign attributes of nations enter into solemn treaties... is unsuited to the intelligence and justice of this age, or the natural rights of mankind» (United States v. Lucero, l N. M. 422, 1896).

For a day I wanted to jazz up my rather solemn mood and get the spring back in my step, I matched the skirt's shininess with some sparkly sequins.

So simple yet so solemn.

These allude to the greenhouse effect, and are both too bland and too solemn for an artist with her head in the stratosphere.»

We'd love to go back to the good old days when we all honored our favorite presidents in our own solemn way with our families.

Ironically, with less to call provocative, serious, and other solemn words, one can start to plan one's trip to Soho.

4 Even so, the Church can not go against the explicit and solemn teaching of Our Lord that, «what God has joined together, no man can separate.»

Both carry solemn expressions and seem to know that they won't be around much longer to look after their parentless grandchildren.

For cooler and shadier thrills, exploring one of Belize's many caves is an excellent opportunity to learn about geology as well as witness artifacts left behind by Maya priests who conducted solemn ritual rites therein.

«Twas a time for solemn reflection.

You take the stairs down to the more solemn part of the building where you will find long corridors with lots of little chambers that are the last resting place of the famous Frenchmen and women.

The Third Reader, after talking about a boy who snitched a too - large piece of cake from his mother's plate, reminds students: «There is a day of most solemn judgment at hand.

And as we both now stand before this miracle, whose solemn silence can not be perturbed by human wrangling over mine and thine, whose awe - inspiring speech infinitely subdues all human strife about mine and thine, forgive me, I pray, the strange delusion that I was the author of this poem.